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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

A Good many people have predicted
that the boring for gas all over the
country would result disastrously to
the United States before many years:
and now correspondent to the Cincin-
att Commercial predicts an overwhelm-
ing disaster to the sections of country
occupied by natural gas wells, and is
so positive in his assertions that he
urges the calling of an extra session
of Congress to take some action in the
matter Boring for natural gas should
be prohibited by stringent laws. The
good people of Ohio and Indiana while
trying to develop the gas magazines,
do not take time to consider that they
are toying with a force that may de
stroy this country and themselves.
The danger that impends is well known
to scientists. 200 years ago in China
there was just such a craze about nat
ural gas as we have in this country
to-day. Gas wells were sunk with as
much vim and vigor as the Celestials
were capable of; but owing to a gas
explosion that killed several millions
of people, and tore up and destroyed
large section of country, leaving a
large inland sea, known on the maps
as lake Goo Chang, the boring of any
more gas wells was then and there
prohibited by law. 1t seems, accord
ing to the Chinese history, that many
large and heavy pressure gas wells
were struck, and in some districts wells
were struck quite near to each other.
Gas was lighted as soon as struct, as
is done in this country. 1t is stated
that one well, with its usual pressure.
by induction or back draft, pulled
down into the earth the burning gas
of smaller well, resulting in a dread
full explosion of large district and
destroying the inhabitants thereof.
Lake Foo Chang rests on this district
The same catastrophe is imminent in
this country, unless the laws restrict
further developments in boring so
many wells. Should a similar explo-
sion occur there will be such an up-
heaval as will dwarf the most terrible
earthquakes ever known. The country
along the gas belt from Toledo through
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will be
ripped up to the depth of 200 to l 500
feet and Topped over like pancake,
leaving a chasm through which the
waters of Lake Erie will come howl
ing down, filling the Ohio and Missis-
sippi valleys, and blotting them out
forever. Some prompt action should
be taken at once to prevent the catas-
trophe.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

BUFFALO BILL, since he ate appl,
pie with Queen Victoria and Prince
of Wales has become noted charac
ter, and is attracting attention every
where. The Arkansaw Traveller gives
this sketch of his life as copied from
the London Court Journal:
"Hon. W. F. Cody buffalo Bill,
was close companion of a man named
Boone, who discovered Kentucky in
1869. Mr.. Cody married a grand.
daughter of a distinguished gentle
man known as Sitting Bullfrog. Cody
was twice Governor of Chicago and
was at one time Mayor of the Arkan-
sas Legislature. He served in the Con-
federate army in the command of Gen.
Butler, who so calamity defended
New Orleans against the threatened
invasion of the Federal General Long
street. After the war Mr.. Cody went
to Congress from the province of De-
troit and introduced a measure for
the relief of the citizens of Buffalo,
which gained for him the name of
Buffalo Bill. He has contributed large
ly to the Atlantic Monthly, newspa-
per edited by Mark Twain and Uncle
Toms Cabin,a man who is mainly not
ed for his negro dialect sketches. Mr..
Cody has a ranch of many acres in
St Louis, where he keeps a large lot
OF Indians and ponies constantly on
hand.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

aYoU have heard the expression;
the naked truth and perhaps you do
not know how it originated, said the
Rev. Sam Jones. in his Red Rock ser
mon. II will tell you. Once upon a
time Truth and Error went in bathing
together, Error came out first, put on
Truths chothes and ran away. And
Error has been trying to wear the
same garments eversince. When Truth
came out of the water the only gar
ments it could find to put on was what
belonged to Error. Before | viii wear
such garments as those, said Truth,
4 will go naked all my life Truth
has kept its word and goes through
the world naked, without frill or bang,
or hustle, or anything else"
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

In Fayette county, Ca, singular
series of marriages has furnished
amusement for many of the people in
the last two years. There were five
Hambcr boys and the same number of
starnes girls. The Hamber boys be-
gan marrying Mr.. Starnes' daughters
in succession, and Mr. Starnes, ST., pro-
tested, hut in vain, the last couple
clipping recently to be married. Mr..
Starnes, seeing himself thus outwitted,
went to the house of widow Hamber.
the mother, took her in his buggy. and
going to Fayetteville, married her,
thus completing the circle of a family
reunion.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

THE passengers on the Union Pac-
ifie overland train which arrived at
Omaha the other morning witnessed
a thrilling scene when near Pine Bluff
station, west of Sidney. A herd of
several thousand cattle, ranging north
of the track, moving south, were ex-
cited by thunder storm and became
almost unmanageable. While the train
was approaching a thunderbolt descen-
ded in the midst of the herd and killed
three of the animals. This stampeded
the herd, and though a score of COW
boys strove to head them of, the
frightened mass rushed forward, strug-
Cling across the track in the path OF
the train. Involuntarily the engineer
set the brakes, but realized that he
would ditch his train if he ran slowly,
he took off the brakes, threw the throt.
tie wide open and plunged into the
herd at the rate of As miles an hour
A passenger who described the scene
says the steers flew in the air in al
directions as the engine struck them
and some struck the roofs of the pas
senger cars in their descent The train
passed through the living drift in safe
ty. When it backed up to see if any
of the cattle were hurt, fifty-sever
dead steers were counted.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23
QUEEN V1oroR1A's annual allowar

QUEEN VIoToRIA's annual allowance
is s2,OOO,OOO. She has reigned fifty
years and consequently has received
s10d,OOO,OO0 in allowances. In addi-
ton to this she has private estates that
bring her over 100000 rentals every
year. 1t costs her nothing to support
her family because each one of her
sons and daughters has annual allow
ances from $4,000 to 100000, not
including their large revenue produc-
ing private estates. If money makes
the mare go Queen Vic's is high flyer.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23
The total number of children M

The total number of children under
twenty-one years Of age in Nevada,
including whites, mongolians, negroes,
deaf and dumb, blind, and Gen1 Tay-
lor's ''rest of mankind" aggregates
1902, and for these somebody has
said the school fund is over one mill
ion dollars;of the total number IA, O62
only Z $40 attended school. Jerusalem;
what an amount of idle capital must
be rusting in the vaults of the school
treasury.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

THE FoolSiller sat by hickory tree,
in the luminous light of the moon; his
eyes were lurid with baleful glee, and
he ehanted simple tune. And the
Foolkiller's tresses were as black as
night, and the Foolkiller's voice was
strong, and the Foolkiller sung with a
weird delight, this simple yet raptur-
Gus song: Oh whittier and where is
the youth who goes in the light of the
waning day, to the river side, where
book beer flows, and squanders away
his pay? / sigh for crack at his swol
len head, and a punch at his blood
shot eye. Oh whittier and whittier
and where is the youth said, that I'll
find him and let him die? Oh whittier
away is the man who tries to get off a
public speech, who'll range from muir
murs and broken sighs, to desperate
wolfsh screech, who gropes around
for missing word and stammers and
hens and haws? Oh soon viii the crack
of my club be heard, as it fiattens up
on his jaws, Oh show me the path to
some lonely dell, where I'll find an
idiot gay, who twangs a note on a
chestnut bell, whenever a word you
say; for chestnut bell is a FOOLS de
vice, which none but a fool will use,
and I'll knock such lunatics in trice
clear out of their high heeled shoes.
Oh whittier away is the man who smiles
and grins in the house of prayer? For
he thinks he's smart, but my snares
and wiles, will coax him into my lair;
and there in the dark and dismal
damp, I'll flatten him on the wall, and
I'll pave the floor of my lonely camp,
with his indestructible gall!'' Then
the Foolkiller leaped to his feet quite
blithe, in the light of the waning
moon, and he drew finger along his
scythe, as he chanted that simple tune
and he started off on Spanish trot
according to lifelong rules, and sung
as he went. "I'll make it hot, in this
dismal region of fools!'- Atchison
(Kan) Globe.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

MAYOR FRANCIS, of St Louis, has
appointed a number of committees to
wait on President Cleveland and in
sist on his making his western visit
in October next 1t is more than pro
bable he will find itageerable with his
feelings to accept, and should he do
50 and see the great West we may ex.
pect an equal divide of visits with
New York ever afterwards.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

ROLLING s.Jnes gather no moss but
with newspaper items not SO. Here is
an illustration in point:
A little item of news appeared few
weeks ago in Montana paper stating
that the very gentlemanly Piegan
squaws had made handsome fortune
the past Spring, skinning the dead
cattle of the ranchmen living around
their Reservation.
That item started out on its Jour
ney and an Idaho paper stated the
Peigan Indians had made $4,000 in
the laudable pastime of ripping the
hides off defunct boyines, somewhere
in Montana.
A Utah exchange said the Heigan
Bucks had cleared up million of
hides taken from frozen stockmen up
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

NEVADA and Idaho are governed
by brothers. Now, if Charley were to
say to Ed, ed, give me your kingdom
and let your people pay tribute to me,
don't you think that Ed. in the classic
language of Bodie miner, would tell
him to depart into outer darkness, to
that pit where ice is an unknown lux
ury and fans are at premium? Me
thinks he would say it every time.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

in Montana to the tune OF $4,000.
A Nebraska exchange said the Pie
Gun inguns had struck a bonanza to
the charming amount of 100000,
peeling dead carcasses up in Montana,
An Ohio wide awake journal land
the Buckeye State is generally in the
lead in everything says the Begun
Indians of Montana had realized a
cool $4,000, 600 out of their efforts to
strip the cuticle out of the entire
animal kingdom.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23
Montana Letter.

IRA our Regular Correspondent
70 speak of Montana as it is. we
would say that no portion Of our
Union is blessed with more natural
resources than this; and certainly all
that is needed to make it first in every
particular is good, enterprising, indus
trious people, men and women, and
thus far, certainly think that with the
present population, no shadow Of
shame creeps over her face as she
looks down upon her people, as she
knows that within her limits live as
many intelligent, liberty loving people
as within any other like space on the
continent. Nature has dealt with n
bountiful hand here, she has imbed-
ded in her mountains worlds of untold
wealth, which is being unearthened as
rapidly as the power now at work is
able and to-day stands second to but
one in mineral production. The beau.
tlful valleys which intervene are. In
most sections, but waving fields of
golden grain, not to be excelled. In
deed, Montana grains bring higher
prices than eastern grains, hence its
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

EDITOR ALLEN of the Shoshone
Journal offers his services as mine
host to all the brethren of the press
discriminating from the trains at Sho-
shons for the press meeting at the
Falls, August 10th. Brother Allen
heartily endorses the meeting and
strongly advocates an organization of
the association. The News modestly
remarks, "them's my sentiments" and
will have representative on hand to
say SO.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

The indianapolis Journal says there
are indications of an ugly fight in the
Republican party in Ohio. Senator
Sherman's open and manly candidacy
for the Presidential nomination has
started movement in the interest Of
other candidates whose plan of cam.
paign seems to be to make war on him
Governor Foraker seems to be encour.
aging and organizing the opposition to
Dir Sherman in the hope, probably,
that with Sherman disposed of, he
would come to the front as presiden-
tial or vice-presidential factor Well,
lot them fight. But Heavenly Father.
Forgive our sins, if such man like
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

ST.. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati and
other large cities of the middle tier of
states have been flooded by thermal
wave that is unprecedented in the
past decade, and the fatal prostrations
from sun stroke have hardly ever been
equaled,
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

THERE is a scriptural injunction
which teaches-it is not the part of wis
dom to put new cloth on old garments;
Dir. Stuart may learn from this that
it will not be well to tack new Idaho
on to old well worn Nevada.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

GIvE Idaho with her $4,000 happy,
contented people to State of Nevada
with her 10000 pulLup-and-ready-to-
go people and Mr.. Stuart will have an
illustration of tail able to wag the
dog.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23
THE IDAHO NEWS.
nLAcKfooT. SATURDAY, July n Isl.

AN accident happened TO the Presi-
dents train while travelling in New
York and the engineer was killed, the
presidential party was unharmed
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

Foraker shall slaughter a man like
Senator sherman. Let Foraker learn
some sense, and get dry behind his
ears before thinking of being Presi-
Dental candidate.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-23

In 1885 the population of Nevada
was IS, 9oO;in 1886, a3, 200, decrease
of $500 in one year. No wonder Mr..
Stuart is alarmed and wants more ter
ritory and more people.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26


The world : renowned McNish
Johnson and Slavin's refined min.
strels will appear at Mullins Hall,
this city. OH Wednesday night Of
next week: In the appearance OF
this celebrated troupe in Grenada
our people will have an opportunity
of witnessing the dolngs and hear
ing the sayings of the greatest show
of the kind ever in the United States.
TO some it may seem strange that
such a large and famous minstrel
would stop at such a small city as
ours, but in 'jumping' from Mem
phis to New Orleans they unavoida-
bly, lose one night; and that, through
the courtesy Of the manager, will be
"put IN" at Grenada. just such an
opportunity has never before, and
perhaps may never again, lie offered
our people Of witnessing the greatest
and grandest Of all minstrel shows.
Secure your seats at once and attend,
and our word for it, you will never
regret having done so,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

Seldom do we meet q man whose
general appearance, maners, and
conversation impresses US more ia
vorably than on Wednesday last
when MI. w. ii. Hawkins, one OF
Senatobia's best business men drop.
ped in on us and made himself
known. Intelligent, refined and
courteous, and altogether communi.
c%ative, he is just such a man who
will command the respect and es.
teen of all with whom he comes
in contact.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

At st. Marks Church, in Raymond,
Miss, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 22d,
1887, by Bishop Hugh Miller Thomp.
son, Mr.. L. r. TURNER, of Grenada,
to Miss EVELYN SUMMERS, of Ray
mOnd.
ATTENDANTs:-G. H. Fitz.G Gerald
and Miss Donna Turner, r. +. Peete
and Miss Matte Blunt, J. T. Thomas
and Miss Maggie Harper, W. B.
Wright and Miss Linnie Mcneil.
Mr.. Turner is we'll known to very
body in this section AZ a young man
of sterling worth and splendid bust
ness capacities, and his friends here
are legion. While Miss Summers is
unknown to us, we are told that a
more intelligent, cultured and beau.
tiful young lady scarcely resides in
our State. After the marriage cere.
mony was over the happy couple, ac-
companfed by a host of friends, boar.
ded the evening train for Jackson,
where. through the courtesy of the
proprietor of the Edwards House, DR..
p. w. Peoples, they partook of a
sumptuous supper, and participated
in a most enjoyable dance until a late
hour. The attendants from here re-
turned home on the morning train,
while the groom and bride went to
New Orleans to spend the honey
moon.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

We had an exceedingly pleasant
call on Wednesday morning from the
able and courteous editor Of the Sen.
atobla Record, Mr.J. e. Ro.eborbugh,
who was OH his way to Duck Hill on
a prospecting outlook. Since then we
learn that Mr.. Rosebor6ugh intends
moving his outfit to Duck Hill, and
begin the publication off paper there
at once. In this matter both Mr., r,
and the good people of Duck Hill are
to be congratulated.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

We are pleased to note that Mr.. 4.
s. McLooney, of Oakland, has moved
his interesting family to Grenada,
where they will in future reside. Be-
sides the intelligent, cultivated gen
tleman, Mr.. McIiobney Is a splendid
mechanic; which occupation he will
devote his attention to while in our
city. We extend him a cordial well
come.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

The battle begins in the earliest
dawn Of the child's existence. II 1t ia
delicate, worms fasten upon It's vitals,
and a. years pass they increase, and
y not destroyed will Kill. Shriner's
Indian VerMifuge will destroy them
and save the life of the child. Sold
by Hughes h Nance,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

We regret to announce that Mrs.
Milbra Leonard; mother Of our wor.
thy colored citizen and progressive
merchant, q. G.. Leonard, died at her
home In this city On Tuesday evening
last, In the ffty-eighth year of her
age. She was Univ ersally beloved by
her own race; and much esteetaed by
all the whites Who knew her;
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

W. would Invite the attention Of
the teader to the card Of Mr.. W. L.
Hentz, general contractor, to be found
in to.day's GAZETTE. MI. Hehts has
served an spprenticesh in the wood.
working business, and Il competent
to do any thing iii that line. His
work, at various places Id tbls 6ity,
attest this. fact.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26
FROM DUCK HILL.
SHE SITS ON A FIRM FOUNDATION,
AND CONTINUES TO BOOM.

AMI MI
--
Perhaps no local excitement O
speculation in this State ever rose
faster or more brilliantly than the
finding of immense beds of iron ore
near Duck Hill. Really when re re.
fleet how short the period since the
first gentle touch of the boom was
felt, aud how fast and how far it has
ira veled, and what real business
transactions have followed, it brings
to mind faint recollections ofthe gold
fever whichprevalled some years ago,
of which we sometimes read. Had
Mississippi, like Tennessee, Arkan-
sas, Alabama, Georgia and some
other States, been a mountainous re-
gion, we would not have been sur
prised. Except a few high hills in the
northeastern part of the State, her
topography is level and undulating.
Again, she for a number of years, par
excellence, has been the cotton State
Of the South, until superseded in this
distinguished honor by the Empire
Of Texas. The geological surface about
Duck Hill is by no means a plain, but
the highest hills are. insignificant
when compared with the tall peaks
which, III the Atlantic States, reach
such an attitude us to be called noun
tains; but in all these low hills, from
the most elevated to the lowest, and
OH many of the intervening valleys,
iron ore is found of the purest quality
and in quantities that seem to defy
weight or measurement. When we
remember the many and increasing
Uses to which iron Is devoted, this
iron find in North Mississippi may
turn out more wealth, more popula-
ton and more business, III the end,
than If it had been gold. It seems as
we advance Misunderstanding NATURES
forces, they have been placed here in
proportion to the wants and necessi-
ties of humanity.
The great nations Of the past knew
the uses of iron. but 1t SEEMED never
to have entered into their civilization
beyond a few demands in a and
less in the arts of peace. Some of the
Oldest nations on the globe pillow even
now with the wooden fork of their
ancestors, three thousand years ago.
The OK on tile banks of the Nile can
be seen to-day pulling a wooden pillow
made from the fork of a small tree.
with the yoke tied to his horns, in the
wheat fields Of Egypt. Probably the
descendants of Jacob saw this in their
day "when Joseph was ruler over all
the land of Pharoak." Iron is found
in MANY parts of Africa, and the saw.
ages to-day have learned its Uses in
the central part Of the dark continent
better than they have in the eastern
part, for they make hoes and instru-
ments of war by melting the crude
ore Into shapes that they can utilize
with hammers and anvils Of hard
rock, with a large green stick as
~
- - /
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

IA scholarship for q full cotfrse Of
Shorthand Instructions, either by
tthail or at the college, IL offered for
SSAle at q bargain. Apply to the edit
VI of this paper.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

I have about two hundred bushels
Of good, sound EN- corn for sale at
seventy-tive cents per bushel. APP
ply ut once to WIN. BOSWORTH,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

The Grenada Oil 4 Compress Com
bany Is paying ten cents per bushel
ttr cotton seed, or n hundred lbs.
Of cotton seed meal for two hundred
lbs. Of seed.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26
NOTICE.

! am prepared to furnish posts, pal.
lngs-split or sawed-and all other
Fencing lumber, in any quantity and
at lowest prices. ABEL BEATTY.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26
NOTICE,

Parties indebted to the firm of J,
W. Roberts will please come forward
fhd settle at once, or the claims will
De placed in the hands of an attorney
for collection. Uan28-1m]
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

The Grenada Oil 4 Compress Com.
pany is paying lOcts. per bushel for
cotton seed,or 100 pounds cotton seed
tneal for 200 pounds of seed.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

We are special agent for the Mem
fhis Sunday Times, the most popu.
{ar literary and society paper pub
tished In this section. If you wish
70 subscribe for the Times order
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26
Notic, Is Bridge Builder; f.

notice 10 Bridge Builder i. TIL
On Monday; March 7t1, l1 Ss1eia
Board Ut Supervisors WIZ . Tood::
sealed BIDS fof The erection s u Oh thC
Grenad7 b Parsons foso, Ghapcsg
bridge can be- seen y iva
Clerks ofilce) The Board fe ~ ,,sdt
right to reject my snq ~ Ms1rSSss,.
gistx Bosfa u saSsf''''
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26
FOR SALE.

The house and lot now occupied by
=: l.. McClenddn, in the East Ward
" the city Of Grenada. Easy terms.
Apply to wv. H. F1Tz.HERALD.
Grenada, Feb. 8. '87. ISL
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

Guckenheimers' Rye, at Towns.
ends, or Main street, can not be ex-
telied. Try it aud be convinced. 1t
Is the best in the market.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26

McNish, Johnson and Slavin's Gel.
ebrated MINISTRIES at Mullins Hal
next Wednesday night.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-26
FOX SALE.

/ have, and will keep at all times,
9 large lot o cheap mules for sale.
II you wish to purchase call on
II. H. WINTER.